Posted on 06/18/2010 11:45:44 AM PDT by marthemaria
"Listen to me, I'm the expert so I'm 'credible'... my doomsday scenario is better than all of the previous prophecies of the end of the world..."
Since it’s too late to do anything and we’re all going to die anyway he can just relax and enjoy his idiot life.
As a mysanthrope, this is good news.
“”Listen to me, I’m the expert so I’m ‘credible’.”
Fenner is an expert on microbiology.
About climate he knows nothing.
We're all going to die of smallpox?
Does this mean the Cubs will win the Series?
I’ve noticed other biologists on the global warming bandwagon. Part of it is political activism, but part of it seems to be these people never took physics I or flunked out.
He’s also 96 years old.
Wasn’t there a panic in the 70s that the world was going to have overpopulated itself to death by now?
However, this chap may have a point. Between then and now, we mostly had the benefit of conservative policies in the mover and shaker nations. Now we may only get liberal throw-up-your-hands-in-despair la la land. And man will be back to living in caves.
I would think that this gloomy-gus would be happy with the knowledge that the world is ending on Dec. 12, 2012. Don’t fret Doc.......we’re all gonna die anyway. /s
This learned pessimism is abhorrent.
The kids of today will figure out solutions to the problems.
Chinese, Americans, Europeans and Indians, the aggregate brainpower of the world is greater than it ever was.
He is even gloomier than AL Gore. Were all gonna die,we are domed etc.We *are* going to die. That part is assured. The real question is when. Dinosaurs lasted millions of years, humans have been around 50,000-250,000 years or so. Rediscovering the fact that species go extinct is nothing "new".
El Cid sees no hope for humans (majority voted for Obama in 2008)...
(I'll work on the rest of the article 'later' -- but it ought to be self-evident)
Yes, there was clearly going to be mass starvation by the 1980s according to Paul Ehrlich(sp?) in his book The Population Bomb. (He was spectacularly wrong in his projections, every one of them if I'm not mistaken.)
**** The emeritus professor in microbiology at the Australian National University played a leading role in sending one species into oblivion: the variola virus that causes smallpox.***
I bet there is more than one vial floating around that has not been destroyed, possibly “enhanced” for military purposes.
Chinese, Americans, Europeans and Indians, the aggregate brainpower of the world is greater than it ever was.There's a certain amount of hubris in that statement. If you watch the amazing ability of the Chinese to "#$"#$ in their own bed you'll have a pretty negative view of their "brainpower".
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